Prospero Gallinari

Prospero Gallinari (1 January 1951-14 January 2013) was a leader of the Red Brigades during the "Years of Lead".

Biography
Prospero Gallinari was born in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy in 1951 to a family of communist farmers, and he was a member of the Italian Communist Party's youth wing until the late 1960s. He emigrated to Milan and decided to pursue armed terrorism in 1969, becoming a clandestine member of the Red Brigades. In 1974, he was arrested for the kidnapping of judge Mario Sossi, but he escaped from jail two years later, and he joined the Roman "column", taking part in the kidnapping of former Christian Democracy prime minister Aldo Moro. After Moro's kidnapping, he became a member of the executive committee of BR, and he was arrested on 24 September 1979 while changing number plates on BR cars ahead of an action. He was shot twice by police before he was arrested, and in the following years, he was occasionally allowed to leave prison due to health issues arising from his shooting. He died in 2013.